Famous Historical Topics & Events Videos

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

A group of girls in Salem Village accuse three women of being witches. During a pretrial hearing, magistrates question the three accused and accept qu...

After Tituba—accused of being a witch in 1692—testified that she saw the names of other people in the “Devil’s book,” th...

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?

The San Andreas fault has impacted California in so many ways, not the least of which are earthquakes in the region.

This historic footage, filmed by the Thomas Edison film company in April of 1906, reveals very few cars in San Francisco at the time of the great eart...

As devastation envelops San Francisco, soldiers came to the aid of the city's people.

If General Santa Anna ordered a bugle to sound the signal "No Quarter," what did the Alamo defenders hear?

Despite an earlier string of space-race failures, the United States developed a rocket with enough power to send people to the moon.

The Preakness is coming up on May 19. In one of the greatest horse races of all time, Seabiscuit and War Admiral (the then-reigning Triple-Crown winne...

Thomas Edison's film company recorded many significant events during the early twentieth century.

Bill Nack, a sport's writer who watched Secretariat's triple-crown races, wrote a definitive biography about the great champion.

It was a very cold October day, in 1973, when Secretariat took the track at Woodbine.

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